City of Kingkel

[MistyBeee]

As requested a few days ago, here is some WIP pictures about one of my current commission : the City of Kingkel for Laura Mair.

Kingkel is an important city in Aetherin, a continent that was cartographied by DanielHasenbos here :o)

The city needed to show two distinct areas : the "old town" North of the river, with several poor areas, medieval look, twisted streets, two ranges of old fortifications, etc., and the "new town", South of the river, which is a much modern city with wider and more organized streets and better fortifications.
Streets are slightly oversized (a common trick on Renaissance city maps !) to allow street names later.

I was about to post a cleaner version but had a thought that maybe you would be interested to see the communication with the client too, that includes notes, colored areas defining upcoming drawings (mosty fields, villages and forests), and WIP inserts & text still under discussion. Colored buildings in town are all "special" buildings that can become hospitals, palaces, temples, etc. according to the wishes of the client.

So, as you can see, there is already many work done on the lineart, and I'm now focusing on the countryside areas.
The map is done with Photoshop only, using my beloved Cintiq pro 16 :o)



Some of you saw a very small sampler of a colored version of this map : I colored only a very small part of the city to help my client see where I'm going. I'm not sure if I'll keep color exactly like this later, but it's a first idea though, so here is the current stage + the colored sampler :



Hope you'll enjoy !